The Biggest Joke Of All: The Comedians Who Didn't Care About The First Amendment Until Now
- Grow Some Labia
- Sep 28
- 8 min read
Where have these late-night boneheads been for the last fifteen years? Why weren't they defending the rest of us from free speech fascists? Especially, you know, their own fellow comedians?
First they came for Kevin Hart, and I did not speak out—because his ten-year-old jokes were said to be ‘homophobic’.
Then they came for Dave Chappelle, and I did not speak out—because he was said to be ‘transphobic’.
Then they came for Stephen Colbert, and I did not speak out—because I didn’t watch his show.
Then they came for Jimmy Kimmel—and I wondered where in hell Trump got the idea that he had the right to oppress and abrogate comedic free speech.
- Pastor Nöballzer
Oh, isn’t it cute how the far left is in a tizzy over a war on comedy, now that the first cannonball has been fired by the Orange Menace’s hand-picked FCC content police lackey.
I guess the ‘woke’ finally WOKE THE FUCK UP.
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel got axed for jokes that annoyed President Manbaby. In saner times, Kimmel’s somewhat insensitive joke about Charlie Kirk’s assassin would have warranted an apology rather than tabling his show. But now he’s reinstated, and we’re all glad. Take that, you senile lump of useless protoplasm.
Dictators do, it’s true, come for the comedians and humorists first. The irony is Trump doesn’t have much left to clean up.
Explain to me why I’m supposed to get all upset for these tone-deaf Karoline Leavitts who’ve been kowtowing for years to other authoritarians: The left’s ‘social justice’ warriors.
The notoriously thin-skinned toddler in wolf’s clothing has lost this round and I hope Democrats hold FCC head Brendan Carr accountable, but these watered-down deadbeats have been recycling old jokes for years about the Evil Awful Republicans even when the Democrats are in power, ignoring the progressive hard-on for authoritarianism surrounding them—cancel culture, deplatforming, the hecklers’ vote, doxing, swatting, book banning, social media dogpiles. Censorship.
Who defended Kevin Hart when he was cancelled for gay jokes? Jerry Seinfeld, Nick Cannon, Rob Schneider, and Dave Chappelle (before his own cancellation).
Not the Late Night gang.
Who defended Dave Chappelle? Eddie Murphy, Flame Monroe, Natalie Cuomo, Patton Oswalt. Blandly, Jon Stewart kinda sorta supported him on a quickie TMZ interview, and, to his credit, so did Stephen Colbert. Although that was in one interview with Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau, in which Colbert defended ‘marginalized’ groups’ oversensitive feelings and never considered what those groups might need to answer for themselves. (The lengthy interview is here, and his comments start at 31:21).
‘Consequence culture’, the MAGAts’ cancel culture rebrand, is what these fake First Amendment supporters past their expiry dates have ignored for the last fifteen years.
Wokèd Came The Danger
Dictators aren’t always embodied by one man, wearing a uniform with bad hair or a silly hat, and a game plan for enforcing his will over all.
Some dictators are a collective effort.
Which is why there’s not much left for the Orange Baby to erase, since the woke War on Comedy has already made it too unsafe to be funny in the Ignited States of Americrap.
Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Larry the Cable Guy and Chris Rock stopped performing on college campuses years ago.
When the woke dug up ten-year-old ‘homophobic’ jokes to force Kevin Hart to step down as the Oscars host, the dictators were identified by all the recognizable garish Batvirtue signals of the Rainbow set. I agree Hart’s old gay jokes weren’t funny—about breaking his son’s head if he played with his sister’s dollhouse or calling someone a ‘fat fag’. They were tasteless and offensive, but totally 1A-approved. Mass entertainment’s cowardly lions kowtowed to anonymous humophobes rather than telling them to wo/man up.
Dave Chappelle: Nearly hounded out of the business because of jokes that offended some transwomen, but not those who were wo/man enough. Like Daphne Dornan, who laughed through his most ‘transphobic’ material and with whom he was friends until she killed herself, having been also hounded and shamed on Twitter for defending his 2019 ‘Sticks & Stones’ special.
Humor speaks truth to power, and America’s Comedy Police came first for the funniest, because humor calls attention to the foibles and hypocrisies of groups progressives hold sacred. As though any human being, or group of humans, is beyond taking down when they need it.
The edgiest, funniest, most shareable comedians are those who voice a truth that others hadn’t considered themselves (He’s right! I never thought of that!) or who dare to speak aloud what others don’t (OMG I can’t believe she said it!) The best jokes strike a nerve. Which is humor’s job. Someone, somewhere, something, or some idea must be the recipient of the joke for humor to work at all.
“ABC stands for Always Be Caving,” Bill Maher quipped, which perhaps goaded ABC and Disney executives to wo/man up with Kimmel.
A guy who proved that even a neo-Nazi can be right at least once in his life said, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
This makes it clear that our new overlords are Trump and the FCC, and no longer the faux ‘disempowered’ who reigned over, and reined in, the first quarter of twenty-first thought: Transactivists, ‘antiracists’, fauxminists and college kids so dumb they couldn’t challenge Charlie Kirk or name either the river or the sea.
When the woke spoke, comedians obeyed
Funnymen shalt ignore that skin color is a tired excuse for criminal behavior and that ignoring the racist attack by a black man on a white woman in North Carolina is itself RACIST.
Thou shalt not make jokes about one’s transitioned Hollywood agent throwing her old dick on the conference table. Thou shalt not point out the irony of the feminist movement taking orders from misogynist cross-dressers while damning men who simply fancy women’s company. Thou shalt not defend, nor call out, the injustice of allowing clearly biological men to compete against women.
Or even what the definition of an actual woman is.
Ah yes, Jon Stewart. He used to be my fave. Now he’s a Good Little Soldier in the woke army, obediently criticizing the gender-critical who know biology better than he. The man who made me roar through ‘Mess O’ Potamia’ during the Bush II years, who always did his homework and nailed the Bushshit of every single administration member, didn’t ask the glaringly obvious questions or investigate whether sex is ‘assigned at birth’ as the ideologically insane maintained.
The man who made international headlines on Fox News’s Crossfire twenty-one years ago to ask Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala to ‘stop hurting America’, pushed, long after he should have known better, genderwoo exemplified by a detransition movement of young people who outgrew their gender dysphoria as many critics predicted, and now suffer more than a few-ah regrets.
Stewart returned a grizzled old geezer who effectively demonstrated who you shouldn’t invite for Thanksgiving unless he promises to behave. “Now remember, children, don’t mention the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti decision banning harmful transition treatments, because you know how Grandpa gets and you’re not going to change his mind, he still believes his gardener is spying on him for Karl Rove!”
Seth Meyers, after the Democrats returned to power, kept making fun of the Republicans and Trump as though they still ran the show. He missed so much ripe for comedic criticism. He was on Trump and the Republicans forever about racism but never noticed anti-white racism or the pseudo-historical 1619 Project. Nadda word about ‘progressive’ factions who pushed anti-white racism, but when Trump began rounding up immigrants accused of being brown and talking weird, big surprise, Meyers decried ICE raids.
Blind. As. A. Bat.
When you ignore the Democratic sinners behind the curtain, you make the same rote jokes every night and they’re just not funny anymore. Trump is crazy, Trump is stupid, MAGAs are evil, Republicans are racist.
Jokes about racist Republicans fall much flatter when hosts play to an audience that itself embraces racism. Or when they make fun of loony QAnon but not ‘Free Palestine’s blood libels. Or when they damn Trump for being racist. Or fail to condemn Black Lives Matter for gross antisemitism. Ever heard of Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X. Kendi, guys? Apparently not.
They wouldn’t speak truth to power when bright blue ocean liners of fresh material rotted in the harbor, so Trump’s FCC is merely driving the final nail in their coffins. While late-night comedians ignored progressive censorship, less powerful people like me and several others I know were getting shut down not by conservatives, but by progressives. How much more audience might those of us deplatformed by Medium, Counter Social, Vocal, Bluesky, Mastodon and others have if these so-called Free Speech Warriors had shamed the progressive censormonkeys of their heyday?
How much bigger might late night’s own audiences have been? Maybe too big for Brendon Carr to shut down?
The new breed of comedians
Past-their-primers have opened the door to new comics and humorists who will also re-make the progressives’ mistakes, but at the moment are making us laugh at what the comedians could have been making bank on themselves if they weren’t such massive wokeweenies.
Matt Walsh, conservative self-described ‘theocratic fascist’, makes hilarious documentaries like What Is A Woman and Am I Racist? and progressives lament how rich he’s gotten.
Why?
Because he’s FUCKING FUNNY!!!
Watch the following short video of Walsh reading his children’s book Johnny the Walrus and tell me it’s not what any of the late-nighters could do right now.
Matt Walsh does liberal comedians’ jobs by calling out the very worst excesses of Democratic, progressive hypocrisy and stupidity the way the Late Night gang once did against whoever the hell was pretending to run the government that term.
What’s embarrassing is, Walsh does it so much better. By speaking truth to power. By calling out the glaring stupidity of the trans kid movement.
Woke progressivism followed the traditional Dictator’s Handbook: Pretend you and your followers are the victims while oppressing everyone in sight. Trump’s Project 2025 MAGAs have seized the handbook in the name of ‘freedom’, ‘liberty’, ‘democracy’, and a lot of other fancy words neither they nor the Late Night gang truly pledge allegiance to.
Now it’s the left suddenly discovering hey, there are ‘consequences’ to ignoring First Amendment attacks by ‘fascists’.
It’s rich, it really is, to hear the lamentations of the liberals.
Constitutional rights are under full-blown attack by a demented old coot with nothing but revenge on his mind for ever being held accountable for anything. I agree that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and anyone else targeted by Trump’s Schutzstaffel have the right to be stupid, lame, and sometimes wrong. If only the left had embraced that idea earlier, rather than their born-yesterday longing for a return to free speech.
The poor saps think it disappeared with Stephen Colbert’s contract.
The left’s hate-on for humor might well have begun with that unfortunate joke Justine Sacco tweeted back in 2013 about South Africans and AIDS. Progressives cheered when she lost her job.
Now the joke’s on them. Along with the unemployment line.
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